Title

Environmental And Land Use Regulation In Nonrenewable Resource Industries: Implications From The Wyoming Checkerboard

Abstract

This paper examines how the oil and gas industry responds to changes in environmental and land use regulations pertaining to drilling by examining differences in regulatory practices on federal and private land. A simulation model for Wyoming is used to estimate losses of oil and gas output over the next 60 years because of higher drilling costs found on federal property. The present value of these losses comes to about $800 million. Also, this case study is of interest because it shows that future production is more sensitive to changes in environmental regulations that apply to drilling than to changes in severance taxes levied on production.

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Publication Title

Land Economics

Volume

80

Issue

1

Number of Pages

76-94

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/3147145

Socpus ID

1342287910 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/1342287910

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